>>Hello,
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>>I am taking over the support of an application and I need to investigate an error that sometimes happens.
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>>The error is : (2005) Error loading file ... Loading form or data environnement:File Access denied.
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>>This is happening occasionnally, and it seems that generally it is when that application crashes (it happens from time to time), although I haven't witnessed the whole sequence of actions when it happens.
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>>I thought that after all users left an application, the database would be released.
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>>It seems not ... or am I wrong ?
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>>I'm looking for ideas on how to track this problem.
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>>TIA.
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>It look like some tables are open exclusively by another app.

You can reproduce this behaviour by openning 2 sessions of VFP.
Open a table exclusively in the first and try to run a form that use the same table in the second, the error message will appear.